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Excerpts from a few of my stories
© S. A. Gorden

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A short biography of S.A. Gorden


The Keep has decided to become more involved with the obtaining of the stories talked about here. The Keep will post reviews for Renaissance E Books/PageTurner and other publishers. For those looking for The Keep's stories in printed form, we are pleased to announce our association with Taconite Runes. You can purchase trade paperback versions of our novels from your local bookstores. The Keep will form partnerships with other quality publishers in the future.



Here is a list of the Keep's reviews featuring my own stories and those at Renaissance/PageTurner
Book Reviews


Tales of Crime

Days Between Seasons is a modern throw back to the blood, guts and sex of the 1960's spy novels. In a small college town in Minnesota, a history professor's wife is killed. Professor Johnston uses the Internet and his own cunning to track down the industrial spies who murdered his wife. From the great corporations of Japan to the Cold War training grounds of Europe, the history professor has to find the truth before he becomes the next victim. With both the killer and the police hunting him, Johnston finds help on the Internet and from other survivors of the spy's manipulations. For Johnston only two things are keeping him alive, his desire to see retribution and the comfort of two women who also survived the murderous spy.

Days between Seasons can be purchased at Renaissance E Books and Fictionwise and your local bookstore.

The Crystal Clear Pond  is a fun little story about an ex-used car salesman who just wants to take wildlife pictures but instead runs into an armed militia group, a naked blond state attorney general investigator and an international hitman.

The Crystal Clear Pond can be purchased at Renaissance E Books and Fictionwise and your local bookstore.

'Crystal' can be read in one sitting. It is a perfect action/adventure to escape from the world for the afternoon.


Tales of Horror

Faces of Doom Chapter 1 For 12,000 years the forces released by violent death waited for a nexus. They waited for Peter Hill. Will this broken man discover what is happening to his life before his doom? History and the present become inter-mixed in Peter's search for what is causing the insanity around him.

Faces of Doom Chapter 3- Suicide
'Faces' adds a paranormal dimension to the action mystery genre. Using historical, archeological and scientific facts it brings the reader on a journey he/she will never forget.

Faces of Doom can be purchased at Renaissance E Books and Fictionwise and your local bookstore.


Tales of Mystery

Everyone is in danger when The Deuce of Pentacles begins to juggle. Will James Makinen survive the manipulations of the evil foretold by the tarot cards? This novel is perfect for the mystery reader who loves the paranormal and enjoys the vicious evil of a serial killer stalking a small town.
Deuce brings back the classic paranormal mystery introduced during the early part of the twentieth century. A unique rural culture balances the modern serial killer story.

The Deuce of Pentacles can be purchased at Renaissance E Books and Fictionwise and your local bookstore.


The Murder Picnic Mysteries series of stories starts with a young farmer, Jim, and his girlfriend, Em, in Northeastern Minnesota farm and timber country during the late 1930's. It is written as the rural equivalent of the classic pulp mystery, the farmland's answer to Agatha Christie's Miss Marple and Dashiell Hammett's Nick Charles.

The series starts when three of Jim's neighbors die under questionable circumstances. The couple are on a date having their usual soft drinks at the local drugstore. Jim wants to find out what happened to his neighbors and Em doesn't want to be left behind. In their usual competitive way, they decide to bet on the investigation. The first to solve the mystery gets to decide on what food the other must bring for a picnic meal -- a real murder picnic.

Jim and Em find out they are good at solving mysteries and soon eat their way through dating, proposal, marriage and life together. The young couple soon become well known in the county for their mystery solving abilities with a foreseeable result that they get involved in a new dangerous and mixed up mystery -- a real Venison Stew


Tales of Science Fiction

Eyes of the Eagle-A textbook proofreader finds his fate defending earth from domination and his love from a mad man.

Eyes of an Eagle can be purchased at Renaissance E Books and Fictionwise and your local bookstore.

Eyes Trilogy is the series of books starting with Eyes of an Eagle, continuing with Eyes of a Cat and finishing with Eyes of the Seeker. This trilogy is finished but looking for a publishing home.

The Return of the Han-A sequel to the original Buck Rogers stories.

Return of the Han can be purchased at PageTurner and Fictionwise.


Tales of Science

The Joys of Being Nonlinear


Tales of Short Length

Small Tales from the Keep


Where to find my stories on the Net and elsewhere

Please link to this page for any changes in the publishing status of my stories.

Novels at:
Renaissance E Books, Fictionwise, Sony, and Amazon.
And bookstores across the United States from Taconite Runes, a publisher of fine trade paperback novels.


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